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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...must to all great men, a debunking came to Socrates this week. The debunker, University of Wisconsin's Professor Alban Dewes Winspear, is a tall, slim scholar, British-born, educated in Canada and at Oxford (as a Rhodes scholar). He has a pedagogic urge to prove that "being in the field of classics doesn't make one an old fogy." Who Was Socrates?* is calculated to make old fogies furious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Socrates Socked | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...About the year 1848 the Medical Association convened at Richmond, Va., and [Dr. Alban S. Payne*] attended as was his custom. One night . . . the [25 or 30] members were returning from the late session. . . . Upon reaching the foot of Capital Hill, the door of a well-known restaurant flew open, as the redoubtable Bill Patterson emerged therefrom. . . . A very Hercules in size and strength, [he] appeared more formidable than usual, having indulged heavily . . . and being in one of his worst moods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 17, 1939 | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

Most relentless Atonalist was gloomy, bald-headed Arnold Schöberg, who in his time influenced at least half the younger composers of Europe. Other eminent Atonalists, all Schöberg disciples: Anton von Webern, who wrote orchestral pieces like the slight whine of a determined mosquito; the late Alban Berg, who wrote the atrabilious opera Wozzeck; Ernest Krenek, who once relapsed so far into cheerfulness as to write an imitation jazz opera called Johnny Spielt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Fort-Holder | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

...While the music of Jewish Atonalist Arnold Schönberg was immediately blacklisted, compositions by "Aryan" Atonalist Paul Hindemith have occasionally been heard, those of "Aryan" Atonalist Alban Berg were heard as late as 1934. Russian Modernist Igor Stravinsky is still a popular composer in the Third Reich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Nazi System | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

...High Hinsdale, Ill. Smith, Hamlin 17 185 6.2 North Shore Winnetka, Ill. Smith, Harold T. Jr. 18 173 5.11 Berkshire Washington, D. C. Townsend, Rodman 18 168 5.11 St. Mark's Clermont, N. Y. Tully, William R. 19 175 6. Exeter Boston Wilner, John L. 18 158 5.10 St. Alban's Washington, D. C. BACKS Allis, Edward P. IV 18 153 5.9 Milton Milwaukee, Wis. Altmaier, Robert D. 17 145 5.8 Columbus Academy Columbus, O. Anderson, Douglas 18 160 5.9 Exeter Wellesley Brew, Donald A. 17 175 6. East Orange High East Orange, N. J. Arnold, Alan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Football Statistics | 9/28/1937 | See Source »

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